‘Bravehearts’, 'Courage Sisters', the names given to the ‘Rohtak sisters’ by the media, warded off their alleged assaulters with all their might as other passengers chose to be passive onlookers. A pregnant woman, who the girls claimed was the only person to have shown them support on the bus, is said to have had captured the entire incident on a phone.
And then the video found its way to the media. The girls could be seen narrating their ordeal across several television channels, repeating the incident over and over again. Debates and views raged on, once again highlighting the apathetic situation of women’s safety in the country.
The bus driver and conductor were suspended, the assaulters were arrested. It was also reported that the men had been selected in the army and were soon to join, but soon after the news broke, their applications were cancelled.
The outrage was still burning, when another version, though alleged, to the story surfaced.
A few rumors doing the rounds put the sisters at fault and that the men were just reacting in self-defense, but no one ready to vouch for its authenticity.
A person named Govind K Singathia recently wrote a post on Janmat, an online forum on Facebook, rubbishing the claims made by the girls.
In his post Singathia claims that girls were travelling in a bus which broke down, following which the driver made arrangement for all passengers to move to another bus. The alleged assaulters were already present in the second bus.
"These girls got on the bus and tried to sit in the seats with the same seat numbers from the bus that had broken down. They asked an old lady and one of the men to move from the seats which had their seat numbers. The boys then asked the old woman not to get up. But the girls persisted and troubled the old lady and she finally got up and sat on a discarded tyre in the bus. The girls then demanded the boy to get up and started cursing them to which the boys retaliated as well, cursing them equally.
After the verbal argument between the girls and the boys, the girl handed her phone to another girl on the bus and asked her to make an mms of her teaching this boy a lesson. She then took out her belt and started hitting him. All the passengers tried to stop her.
If it was really the boys fault, the passengers wouldn't have sat idle. This is Haryana. Not Delhi."
Singathia also alleges that the old woman tried to filed an FIR but the police turned her away.
Another video has also surfaced which shows one of the Rohtak sisters arguing with a man in Mumbai after which they begin beating him. The time and authenticity of the video cannot be vouched for.
Singhatia claims the chain of events were not as reported by the media.
"Both the videos do not show the origin of the brawl, and it does leave way for the possibility that the incident could have taken place in a different order. There are two versions, no one can tell for sure which is true," says a TV channel's reporter working from Chandigarh.
When one news channel asked one of the girls how both the incidents were filmed specifically at the point when the girls begin hitting the boys and how the videos do not show the context of the fights, the girl replied saying anyone could have filmed it. She also said that someone could have filmed the incidents only when things started to get out of hand.
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